Methodology & data

How the numbers are made

Name: Small business software plan prices and website fees
Creator: I Want My Website Now
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Published vendor prices are copied from dated source pages. Typical business bills are labeled as examples.

The rules

Verified only. A price is printed only when we read it off the vendor's own pricing page. Prices from review sites, press or resellers are never printed.
Dated. Each vendor carries the date we read its page. The research ran in September 2026.
Exact. $79.95 stays $79.95. Yearly figures are the published monthly price times twelve.
Website prices are not always add-ons. A recorded website price may be the rate of a plan that includes it. We do not add it to a base plan without checking the vendor's terms.
Hidden prices are a finding. If a vendor only quotes on a sales call, we say so and print no number.
Typical setups, not averages. Each business's statement is one realistic setup built from published prices, described in plain words above the line items. Your bill will differ; use the linked sources to check your own plans and terms.
Company counts come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (QCEW) by industry code. Where one code covers several kinds of business, we say "up to".

What we publish

Research is published by Don. Vendor comparisons distinguish linked product descriptions from our assessment of workflow fit. Source checks are not hands-on product tests, and the guides are not paid recommendations.

142 kinds of business have owner-facing research and either a priced website line with at least three vendors and a company count, or at least eight vendor profiles from the deeper research. That is a minimum research gate, not a claim that every published page has the same editorial depth.

How to read the evidence

Vendor fact: a description or price linked to the vendor’s documentation, with its own capture date. Confirm current terms before buying.
Editorial assessment: our interpretation of where a product or a custom build may fit. It is not a tested product ranking.
Buying brief: a niche-specific demo script, migration questions and proposed acceptance criteria. See the rental, roofing and salon briefs.
Working example: a limited demonstration with disclosed assumptions. The rental availability example uses synthetic data and publishes its test cases. It is not a deployed customer system.

Source coverage varies. The broader directory pages provide researched prices and vendor terms; they do not all have an authored buying brief or implementation evidence. New workflow research does not refresh the dates of older price records.

Guides with a buying checklist

These 107 guides include an authored comparison, a proposed demo scenario, migration questions and a downloadable checklist. They are not customer implementation case studies.

The dataset

Download the plan-level data for all 1150 vendor profiles, including published monthly prices, website price points, quote-only labels and source dates. A website price point is not necessarily an additional fee. Add-on and contract details are on each vendor page. The CSV is free to use under CC BY 4.0; credit "I Want My Website Now" with a link.

Download the CSV

Found a price that's changed? Email us and we'll re-check it against the vendor's page.